Sports Quotes
“A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.”
“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”
-- Billie Jean King
“I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.”
-- Willie Mays
“The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.”
-- Marion Jones
“I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.”
-- Joan Jett
“Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.”
-- George Leonard